Oculus today announced a new exclusive, Wilson’s Heart, a first-person psychological thriller slated to arrive on Oculus Home in 2017. The game uses Oculus Touch controller so you can examine clues and manipulate in-game objects naturally.
Microsoft today announced ‘Project Scorpio’ a new Xbox console launching in 2017 which promises to bring “high fidelity VR” and 4K gaming to the console world.
Bethesda has confirmed that Fallout 4 VR for the HTC Vive will be the entire game and not just a demo or vertical slice. Further, the company says the Fallout 4 VR release date will come within 12 months.
At Microsoft’s Pre-E3 event, the Minecraft announced that the title will soon support players playing the game on any platform, including virtual reality devices like Samsung’s Gear VR.
KonceptVR has produced a couple of 360 videos for Broadway Theater productions that includes a promo with the cast of Hamilton as well as a music video with the cast of School of Rock. I had a chance to catch up with KonceptVR’s Max Bolotov at SVVR 2016 where he shared a lot of his lessons learned from working on broadway, some history of 360 video rigs with Freedom 360, and one of the very first 360 music videos produced by yellowBird in 2010 that inspired him to get into spherical video.
Microsoft’s Xbox One console has been at the centre of some persistent rumours in the run up to this year’s E3 Expo, will MS respond to Sony’s PlayStation VR head start by announcing a partnership with another headset manufacturer? Or will they choose to focus on core gaming exclusively and continue to bide their time? Find out by watching the event live stream, due to kick off at 9:30am PST.
CCP Games have announced that the first free update for their multiplayer online space shooter EVE:Valkyrie will arrive on June 20th, along with a handful of other tweaks and features.
As HoloLens filters its way into more developers’ hands, we’re beginning to see some of the true potential in Microsoft’s ‘Holographic’ augmented reality headset. This early new project from Jasper Brekelmans shows the potential, practical applications for SFX artists to build digital visual effects against reality in real time.
Today Razer is announcing a $5 million OSVR development fund which the company will use to incentivize support of its open-source VR platform.
“Weren’t expecting that were you?” said Pete Hines, Bethesda’s VP of Marketing, after revealing that an incarnation of Fallout 4 (2015) and Doom (2016) are in development for virtual reality on the HTC Vive.
A recently released press shot confirms that the new Star Trek: Bridge Crew title from Ubisoft has been built for the Oculus Rift headset and forthcoming Oculus Touch controllers.
iRacers almost missed out on VR support in the last update. According to Shawn Nash, the software engineer responsible for implementing VR into iRacing, it was a very close call. “We ported the support from DX9 into our new DX11 engine which was a large rewrite, but we also had to rewrite other large portions of it to work with the latest Oculus SDK. We weren’t even sure it would be at all ready in time. The user interface was only rendering in one eye, and not in 3D, just five days before the release date!”
Moto Racer 4 is a motocross and racing bike racing title inbound for the Sony PlayStation VR platform and if this trailer is anything to go by, it’ll offer a challenge for those without their VR legs.
Bethesda Softworks today announced during their E3 2016 press conference that VR versions of both Fallout 4 and Doom will be coming to VR headsets.
